The successful applicant will join a team of Consultant Microbiologists, Consultant Clinical Scientists, Specialist / Speciality Doctors and Infectious Diseases Clinicians, as well as specialty trainees in ID/Microbiology and HSST Clinical Scientists, providing the highest standards in clinical infection management, laboratory microbiology (including virology and molecular virology), infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship.
Responsibilities
* Communicate with and visit wards in response to significant microbiology results.
* Conduct augmented care ward visits (General ITUs, General HDU, Cardiac ITU) across James Cook and North Tees Hospitals.
* Provide bacteraemia service and clinical microbiology consultation service.
* Review and authorise laboratory reports.
* Attend Monday morning clinical handover meetings and Friday joint clinical meetings with infectious diseases physicians and antibiotic pharmacists.
* Participate in ward rounds, antimicrobial guideline development, trust antimicrobial group meetings, and multidisciplinary working with pharmacy, infectious diseases and other clinical staff to promote judicious use of antibiotics.
* Support clinical multidisciplinary team meetings.
* Cover colleagues annual leave and other authorised absences; reciprocal cover will be provided.
* Participate in the out‑of‑hours microbiology service covering all University Hospital Tees sites, including cross‑site meetings on handover arrangements, rotas and clinical responsibilities.
* Perform on‑call service: up to 1 in 11 overnight on‑call rota (5-pm to 9am Monday to Friday, 3-pm to 9am Saturday/Sunday) and 1 in 6 weekend on‑call rota (9am to 3pm Saturday/Sunday) Category A.
* Take part in infectious disease clinical sessions, including inpatient care, infectious diseases clinics, HIV, viral hepatitis, outpatient antimicrobial therapy services (OPAT) and ward consultations.
Qualifications
* Combined medical microbiology/infectious diseases CCT (or equivalent qualification) and willingness to take on additional clinical roles.
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